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Coldplay and RAYE to headline Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2024

The Last Dinner Party, Vampire Weekend and more will also head to Luton this May.

By Will Richards

Coldplay onstage in Costa Rica, March 2022
(Photo: Stevie Ray Gibbs)

Coldplay and RAYE have been announced as headliners for the 2024 edition of Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

The festival will come to Luton this year on the Bank Holiday weekend of May 24-26. It will take place across four stages at Stockwood Park.

Earlier this week, Chase & Status, Becky Hill and Rudimental were revealed to be playing the Friday (May 24) of the festival, with new names now added for the other two days.

RAYE will headline on Saturday, May 25 alongside Charli XCX, The Last Dinner Party, Griff and more, while Sunday (May 26) will see Coldplay joined by Vampire Weekend, Beabadoobee and others.

See the full line-up for the final two days below.

40 per cent of tickets for Big Weekend will go to local residents in the Luton area, and go on sale at 5pm GMT on Thursday, March 21. You can buy your tickets here.

The radio station’s annual event came to Dundee in 2023, with a line-up including The 1975Lewis Capaldi and Arlo Parks.